Wheeler, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Wheeler village is a very small community in Illinois, with 93 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1349 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 7% of them. The median age here is 39.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Wheeler village earn a median of $20,625 a year, 73.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 72% below the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 48.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wheeler village is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 89.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 93 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Wheeler village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Wheeler village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.